Books of 2016, feminism and libertarianism

In my previous post back in April I gave the first impressions of my tour of feminism, which I concluded with this facebook post. I also previewed the tour of libertarianism I had planned to embark on, a syllabus to fill some gaps from my youthful libertarian indoctrination. It's amazing how these proposed lists differ so much from what I actually read. And then there was my New Years resolution to read more scifi and fantasy. I pretty much failed that as soon as I got inspired to read Les Misérables (just over 25% through that one ...).

Anyway, here's the list, with links provided to my reviews or relevant blog posts. Turns out I wrote a lot of book reviews this year.

• Justice at a Distance - Loren Lomasky & Fernando Tesón
• Women and Western Political Thought - Susan Moller Okin
• Feminine and Feminist Ethics - Rosemarie Tong
• Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men - Anne Fausto-Sterling
• Justice, Gender, and the Family - Susan Moller Okin
• Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics - Seyla Benhabib
• Sex and Social Justice - Martha Nussbaum
• See also this blog post on objectification.
• And this one on social justice versus social mercy.
• Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities - Martha Nussbaum & Jonathan Glover (eds.)
• Toward a Feminist Theory of the State - Catharine MacKinnon
• See also this blog post on how radical feminism is, like all fundamentalisms, epistemically closed.
• Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing - Miranda Fricker
• See this blog post on distinguishing between wrongness and culpability. 
• And this one trying to apply the concepts of testimonial injustice and (less successfully) hermeneutical injustice to rape culture.
• Justice and the Politics of Difference - Iris Marion Young
• Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? - Susan Moller Okin (lead essay)
• Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand - Mimi Reisel Gladstein & Chris Matthew Sciabarra (eds.)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
• I, Jedi - Michael Stackpole
• Liberalism: The Classical Tradition - Ludwig von Mises
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Nozick
• Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order - Doug Rasmussen & Doug Den Uyl
• Free Market Fairness - John Tomasi
• See also this blog post on my own version of market democracy: free market capabilities.
• The Future and Its Enemies:  - Virginia Postrel
• Elements of Justice - David Schmidtz
• The Tyranny of the Ideal - Gerald Gaus

Somehow I never got around to reviewing Elements of Justice, even though it was excellent. It argues for value pluralism. Our understanding of justice is a hodgepodge of multiple considerations, such as equality, need, desert, and reciprocation. Good judgment comes in understanding where and how these different kinds of reasons apply and why.

I'm finishing my tour of libertarianism (really classical liberalism) with Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Equality. Though I do plan to read Jacob Levy's Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom when it appears in paperback.

I don't have anything too coherent planned for a new reading project. Gaus turned me onto some new thinkers I want to check out: Helene Landemore and Scott Page. With current events firmly in mind, I want to read more history and history-based accounts of civilization and political stability. And I also want to devote some energy to reading books that have been sitting on my shelf for a long time collecting dust.